| William Paley - Apologetics - 1800 - 446 pages
...hiftorian's account as belongs to our prefent purpofe : " They had their denomination from Chriftus, who, in the reign of Tiberius, was put to death as...by the procurator Pontius Pilate. This pernicious fuperftiticn, though checked for a while, broke out again, and fpread not only over Judea, but reached... | |
| William Paley - Apologetics - 1800 - 418 pages
...multitude of Chridians were condemned at Rome ; that they derived stheir denomination from Chrift, who, in the reign of Tiberius, was put to death, as a criminal, by the procurator Pontius Pilate ; that the fuperftition had fpread not only over Judea, the fource of the evili but had reached Rome... | |
| William Paley - Apologetics - 1803 - 334 pages
...our prefenc purpofe. 44 They had their denomination from Chriftus, who, in the reign i oTTiberius, was put to death as a criminal by the procurator Pontius Pilate. This pernicious fuperftition, though checked for a, while, broke out again, and fpreacl not only over Judea, , but... | |
| Thomas Wood - 1805 - 296 pages
...thereof, brings in the Chriftians, of whom he fays, — They had their denomination from Chriftus, who, in the reign of Tiberius, was put to death as...by the procurator Pontius Pilate. This pernicious fuperftition, though checked for a while, broke out again, and fpread not only over Judea, but reached... | |
| John Wesley, George Story - Christianity - 1807 - 700 pages
...were then extant." f Tacitus lays, " They, (the Chriftians), had their denomination from Chrillus, who, in the reign of Tiberius, was put to death as a criminal by the Pro* curator, Pontius Pilate." Suetonius allures us, that the Emperour Claudius, who % reigned from... | |
| William Paley - Theology - 1810 - 436 pages
...multitude of Christians were condemned at Rome ; that they derived their denomination from Christ, who, in the reign of Tiberius, was put to death, as a criminal, by the Procurator Pontius Pilate ; that the superstition had spread not only over Judea, the source of the evil, but had reached Rome... | |
| 1831 - 492 pages
...refers to " the Christ" by name. Tacitus, the Roman historian, says that the Christians were so named from Christus, who in the reign of Tiberius was put to death as a criminal by Pontius Pilate. Suetonius, Martial, Juvenal, Pliny the younger, the emperor Hadrian, and others, speak... | |
| Thomas Chalmers - Apologetics - 1817 - 264 pages
...Tacitus had thrown one, particular snore into his testimony, and that his sentence had run thus: " They had their denomination from Christus, who, in the reign of Tiberius, \vus put to death as a criminal by the procurator Pontius Pilate, and who rose from the dead on the... | |
| Methodist Church - 1818 - 494 pages
...that Tacitus had thrown one particular more into his testimony, and that his sentence had run thus, " They had their denomination from Christus, who, in...death as a criminal by the procurator Pontius Pilate, and who rose from the dead on the third day after his execution, and ascended into heaven.'1'' Does... | |
| Thomas Chalmers - Apologetics - 1818 - 530 pages
...that Tacitus had thrown one particular more into his testimony, and that his sentence had run thus : " They had their denomination from Christus, who, in...death as a criminal by the procurator Pontius Pilate, and who rose from the dead on the third day ofter his execution, and ascended into heaven." Does it... | |
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